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Hutton Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is an American
writer on Sedevacantism, a World War II veteran and the father of 11 children,
one of whom is the actor and director Mel Gibson. He was born in Peekskill, New
York, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson and Australian opera singer Eva
Mylott.

Hutton Gibson served as a US Army Officer during World War
II after graduation from an Officer Candidate School program.

Following a grand champion victory on the 1968 Jeopardy!
game show, he moved his family to Australia in 1968 in protest against the
Vietnam War and because he believed that changes in American society were
immoral.

Gibson and his family, including his son Mel, have been
alleged to be members of the Catholic Traditionalist Church of the Holy Family
in Malibu, a private church belonging to an independent Catholic community; the
church building has been funded by Mel Gibson.

Hutton Gibson, with many Traditionalists, believes that the Second
Vatican Council was a secret anti-Christian plot by both Masons and Jews.
Gibson also holds to other theories, such as his claim that the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks were carried out by "remote control" by
Zionists as well as his denial of commonly "accepted" aspects of the
Jewish Holocaust.

Hutton Gibson also publishes a quarterly newsletter
propagating his views under the name The War is Now!

It has been repeatedly and incorrectly claimed that Hutton
Gibson is a Sirianist.

Hutton Gibson's Heretical Beliefs and Practices Exposed

As we will see, Hutton Gibson believes in the heresy that
men can be saved without explicit faith in the Incarnation and the Most Holy
Trinity. He says they can be saved by an implicit faith if they are invincibly
ignorant, meaning, apostate Jews, Moslems, pagans, and Protestants who live and
die in their false religions can be saved and enter heaven. This is heresy:

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Athanasian Creed,
Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved,
needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this
whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.– But the
Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity
in unity…

“But it is necessary for eternal
salvation that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ… the Son of God is God and man… This is the Catholic faith;
unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.”

He also holds the schismatic position that it is heresy to
say one must absolutely be baptized

by water to have a hope to be saved. He accuses those who
believe that one must be baptized by

water in order to be saved of teaching heresy.

Pope Paul III, The Council of
Trent, Sess. 7, Can. 5 on the Sacrament of Baptism, ex cathedra:
“If anyone says that baptism [the Sacrament] is optional, that is, not
necessary for salvation (cf. Jn. 3:5): let him be anathema.”

Hutton Gibson totally rejects the Catholic dogma on salvation

Hutton Gibson, October, 2004 Newsletter:

Objection from a reader: “…you
quote Joseph Pohle, S.T.D.: ‘In like manner Mass may be celebrated privately
for the souls of deceased Jews and heathens, who have led an
upright life, since the sacrifice is intended to benefit all who are in
purgatory.’ [the reader says:] This is pure modernism, and implies
that a Jew or heathen who has led an upright life but died outside the Body of
Christ on earth could be in Purgatory.’Hutton Gibson’s
response: … ‘I can appreciate that Leonard Feeney might have difficulty
in reconciling Joseph Pohle’s implication with his own views. Naturally, if
no Jew or heathen can be saved, then neither can be in Purgatory. But
Pohle had never encountered Feeney’s subsequent innovation, and
therefore took no cognizance of it.’”

Comment: A few years back Hutton Gibson, the
“traditionalist” father of the famous Mel Gibson, wrote us and expressed his
disappointment that we hadn’t quoted him in Issue #1 of our magazine. He also
stated that entire writings of his had been dedicated to our “heresy.” Hutton
has denounced us several times in his newsletters. As we inform the many people
who ask us about Hutton Gibson, the unfortunate fact is that Hutton Gibson does
not possess the Catholic Faith (even though he claims to be Catholic), because
he obstinately rejects the dogma that all who die as non-Catholics are lost. It
is a fact that Hutton Gibson believes that non-Catholics can be saved without
the Catholic Faith. He has indicated this many times in his writings. He
consistently attacks with a devilish tenacity the staunch priest Fr. Leonard
Feeney, because Fr. Feeney believed and defended this dogma which Hutton hates
so much.

Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy
Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are
outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and
schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire
which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the
Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical
body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of
piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and
that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and
even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in
the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”

In his October newsletter, we see that Hutton Gibson again
reveals his heretical depravity. He is asked about Jews and heathens getting
into Purgatory, and therefore being saved. He says that Fr. Feeney might have a
problem with this, but J. Pohle (a heretic who also rejected the dogma) did not
encounter Feeney’s “innovation.” In other words, according to Hutton Gibson,
it is an “innovation” of Fr. Feeney that all who die as Jews and heathens
cannot be saved! This is clear-cut heresy from a wicked man who is
subverted in his sins. Hey Hutton… you liar and corrupter of the Faith… tell
Pope Eugene IV and Pope Gregory XVI that this was Fr. Feeney’s innovation… you
heretic.

Pope Gregory XVI, SummoIugiter
Studio, May 27, 1832, on no salvation outside the Church: “Finally some
of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others that men
are not saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics
may attain eternal life… You know how zealously Our predecessors taught
that article of faith which these dare to deny, namely the necessity of
the Catholic faith and of unity for salvation… Omitting other appropriate
passages which are almost numberless in the writings of the Fathers, We
shall praise St. Gregory the Great who expressly testifies that THIS IS
INDEED THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. He says: ‘The holy universal
Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her and
asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved.’ Official
acts of the Church proclaim the same dogma. Thus, in the decree on faith
which Innocent III published with the synod of Lateran IV, these things are
written: ‘There is one universal Church of all the faithful outside of which
no one is saved.’ Finally the same dogma is also expressly mentioned in
the profession of faith proposed by the Apostolic See, not only that which all
Latin churches use, but also that which… other Eastern Catholics use. We did not
mention these selected testimonies because Wethought you were
ignorant of that article of faith and in need of Our instruction. Far be it
from Us to have such an absurd and insulting suspicion about you. But We are so
concerned about this serious and well known dogma, which has been attacked with
such remarkable audacity, that We could not restrain Our pen from reinforcing
this truth with many testimonies.”

The following could take place at Hutton Gibson’s
Judgment: [Jesus Christ]: You know, Hutton, that I stated again and
again in the Gospel that he who does not believe in Me is condemned, and that
Jews that don’t believe in Me will be condemned. And you know that the Council
of Florence defined without exception that all who die as Jews are not saved.
And yet you not only rejected this dogma and contradicted it, but you attacked
those who professed it as heretics, and you dishonestly called this truth,
given by Me and defined by the Council of Florence, Fr. Feeney’s innovation.
You know that this is a lie, Hutton, for which there is no excuse. [Hutton
Gibson would say]: Yes, it is true, Lord… I cannot deny it because it is
true. [Jesus Christ]: You are condemned by your own words… Begone to the
outer darkness, your sentence is Hell for all eternity.

This is not what could happen, but Hutton Gibson’s damnation
is what will happen if he continues on his path – and it is what
will happen to all the other heretics who believe the same way. Hutton
Gibson is no different from the Protestants who cannot accept the Catholic
dogma on the Eucharist or the Priesthood. He cannot accept the Catholic dogma
on salvation; it is too hard for him, just like those who left Our Lord in John
Chapter 6.

The Denial of the dogma “No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church.”

The implicit faith/desire heresy teaches that certain men,
under the New Covenant, can be saved without explicit faith in the Incarnation
and Most Holy Trinity if they are invincibly ignorant. Any priest or laymen who
teaches the implicit faith heresy or calls Catholics heretics for putting forth
the dogma that one must absolutely be baptized by water in order to have a hope
for salvation must be avoided and cannot be supported by Catholics in any way.
They are committing the same crimes that led to the Great Apostasy. They must
know by now that the implicit faith heresy and BOD/BOB is the lynch pin heresy
that has led to the Great Apostasy and was the deathblow to evangelization.
Evangelization first had to be eliminated before the heresies of religious
liberty and false ecumenism could take root in the Conciliar Church. Hutton
does not agree, he says:

Hutton Gibson, The War is
Now!, No. 45, p. 2: “This entire matter should concern us not in the least.
None of it applies to us, or even to the Church. It may safely be left to God.
It never stopped the missionary effort. That was accomplished by Vatican II’s
Ecumenism and Religious Freedom.”

No, the denial of the dogma “No salvation outside the
Catholic Church” had stopped the missionary effort and only then were the
heresies of religious liberty and false ecumenism implemented in the Conciliar
Church after Vatican II. What does Pope Gregory XVI teach?

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, 1832:
“13. Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church
is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all
sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the
eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as
long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive
this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the
admonition of the apostle that "there is one God, one faith, one
baptism" may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of
salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the
testimony of Christ Himself that "those who are not with Christ are
against Him," and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him.2 Therefore "without a doubt, they will
perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate.... 14.
This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous
proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for
everyone.”

Clearly, Pope Gregory teaches that before the heresy of
religious liberty (liberty of conscience), came the heresy of justification and
salvation for men in false religions provided they live a moral life (follow
the natural law upon their heart). He clearly teaches, that first the sin of
indifferentism is committed by denying the dogma of “No salvation outside the
Catholic Church” by saying, “it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation
of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is
maintained.” It is the propagation of this heresy, “this shameful font
of indifferentism,” that “gives rise to that absurd and erroneous
proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for
everyone.” After the Religious Liberty heresy follows the justification of
the False Ecumenical movement. So we see, Hutton Gibson is dead wrong. It is
the crafty denial of the dogma “No salvation outside the Catholic Church,” that
Hutton is guilty of, that leads to the heresies of religious liberty and false
ecumenism. The denial of the dogma “No Salvation Outside the Church” is the key
dogma that had to be denied first. If this dogma were not first denied then the
heresies of religious liberty and false ecumenism would have no chance of
implementation.

And by their fruits you shall know them. When Mel Gibson was
interviewed on National Television by ABC’s Diane Sawyer, just before his film
came out, he had a great opportunity to evangelize. When asked about whether
Jews and Muslims can be saved, all he had to do was read from the Bible, or
point to the words of Jesus Himself [in Mk. 16:16; Jn. 14:6, etc.]. And Mel
should have anticipated that ABC would ask him if he believes Jews go to
heaven, so he should have been prepared simply to quote Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Instead of simply quoting Jesus or Catholic dogma, Mel vacuumed the power and
the truth out of the Gospel, and told the world a new gospel, that you don’t
even have to be Christian to be saved.

From Mel Gibson’s interview with Diane Sawyer on PrimeTime:

DIANE SAWYER: (Voice Over) So
when we talked with Gibson and his actors, we wondered, does his
traditionalist view bar the door to Heaven for Jews, Protestants, Muslims?

MEL GIBSON: That’s not the
case at all.Absolutely not. It is possible for people who are not even
Christian to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s just easier for –and I have
to say that because that’s what I believe.

DIANE SAWYER: (Off Camera) You
have the nonstop ticket?

MEL GIBSON: Well, yeah, I’m saying
it’s an easier ride where I am because it’s like –I have to believe that.

I remember when this occurred feeling extremely sad and
disappointed, because I knew what a blow it was for the salvation of so many
countless souls who were watching; souls who might have been impelled to seek
further, to move closer, to investigate more deeply the traditional Catholic
Faith, if Mel had simply professed its necessity and that it is the only way
for them to be saved. Perhaps millions of souls could have heard the truth
for the first time in their lives – the only truth that ultimately mattered for
them in their lives filled with countless hours of worthlessness and diversion
from the point of life and eternity. Mel could have told them that truth for
once in their lives – a truth that may have shaken them out of their darkness –
but no, he told them a lie instead. When Mel told the world on National
Television, a world that was anticipating his new film day after day all over
the news, that it’s not even necessary to be Christian to be saved, it was like
the story of his film went from truth to fable, from history to theatre, from
power to emptiness, from fact to fiction.

Mel Gibson uttered his heresy when he was sitting next to a
Jew, Mia Morgenstern. Thus, Mel holds that Jews, Buddhists, Protestants, etc.
can be saved, and even Jews who reject Christ. Mel’s interview was so
bad that the next day on Good Morning America a Christ-denying Jew of
the American Jewish Committee called Mel’s words “fabulous.” The Christ-denying
Jew specifically made note of the fact Mel mentioned the possibility of
non-Christians being saved. (The devil and those who are his take in all of
this.)

And this brings me to two other points: 1) We often hear
from those who believe in the heresy of salvation for the “invincibly
ignorant”/non-Catholics without the Faith, that their belief is no
hindrance to their effort to evangelize or profess the dogma Outside the Church
There is No Salvation without compromise. This is nonsense! If this were true,
then Mel Gibson should have been able simply to say what the Church says: Outside
the Church There is No Salvation; but he couldn’t. Mel had to indicate that
you don’t have to be Catholic to be saved because this is what he believes.

Pope St. Pius X condemned the following Modernist
proposition on July 3, 1907 in “Lamentabili Sane”:

“The dogmas of faith are to be
held only according to a practical sense, that is, as preceptive norms for
action, but not as norms for believing.”- Condemned statement

The idea that we can preach that there is no salvation
outside the Church, while we believe in our hearts that there is salvation
outside the Church, is false and heretical. Those who believe in salvation
for the “invincibly ignorant”/non-Catholics without the Faith will fail to call
the non-Catholics to conversion without qualification when it matters, if
they even try to convert them at all. They will fail to profess the
necessity of the Catholic Faith precisely because they don’t believe in
the necessity of the Catholic Faith. A true Catholic, on the other hand,
can call non-Catholics to conversion without compromise precisely because he believes
what he professes. And the Catholic Church believes what She professes.

Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church
firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside
the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of
such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments
contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and
practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that
nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if
he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom
and unity of the Catholic Church.”

2) A “traditionalist” who also denies this dogma recently
complained that those of us who adhere strictly to this truth are making such a
“big deal” about this, and causing division among traditionalists. The
hypocrisy of this statement is astounding. Think about this: if you don’t want
division, then why can’t you people just be quiet – nay, shut the heck up – and
repeat with the Catholic Church that all who do not die as Catholics will not
be saved? Why must you and your heretical friends insist on the contrary and
all kinds of “exceptions”? Does this benefit anyone, even if they were true? Even
if you believed that some men who are not Catholic can be saved without the
Faith (which is clearly false), you know that it does no one any good to
insist on this idea, so why do you go out of your way to do so? Is this not
totally evil? Can you not see that this is evil, that it benefits only the
devil, that it serves only to discourage conversions and evangelism?

Why can’t you just shut your mouths, drop your pens and
repeat without exception: Outside the Catholic Church There is No Salvation?
Are you trying to keep non-Catholics from the Catholic Faith? You blind
fools, you are enemies of God and the non-Catholics whom you falsely try to
justify! For even if you believed that some men don’t need the Catholic
Faith for salvation, you can see that it does not benefit anyone to insist on
this. But you insist on this falsehood simply because those who don’t
believe this truth cannot profess it when it matters, and the devil causes
you to attack the truth which you have despised in your hearts.

Only those who believe in their hearts that there is utterly
no salvation outside the Church (Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council) will be
able to profess it and truly call non-Catholics to conversion, which is true
charity.

Hutton Gibson believe the invincibly ignorant non-Catholics can be saved

Those who do not know of Hutton Gibson may be thinking, does
Hutton believe invincibly ignorant non-Catholics can be saved by an implicit
faith/desire? The answer is yes. He teaches this heresy that has been condemned
by Pope Gregory and many other popes.

Hutton Gibson, The War is Now!,
No. 49, p. 3: “If the invincibly ignorant are saved it is not through
ignorance but from co-operation with grace and conformity to God’s will. It is
far harder for them so to conform in ignorance than for Catholics who know
their obligations. We don’t know who or how many these people are.”

You have just read Hutton say that an invincibly ignorant
non-Catholic can conform to God’s

will, meaning he can live a moral life, according to the law
that is written upon his heart. Pope

Gregory, condemning Hutton, says, “This perverse opinion
is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible
to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of
religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a
matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your
care. With the admonition of the apostle that "there is one God, one
faith, one baptism" may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe
harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever.” (Pope
Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, # 13, August 15, 1832)

The natural law is written on the heart of all men, so that
all men know that certain things are against God’s law and that certain things
are in accordance with the natural law of charity, etc.

The natural law is the law that every person knows by
instinct from birth. It is planted by the Creator in our heart, and everyone –
even pagans who have never heard about God or the true Catholic religion –
receive this gift from God. Examples of sins that break the natural law and
that are easy to recognize are abortion, murder, rape, theft, pedophilia,
homosexuality, slander, and lying. The conscience always convicts a person who
does these things and thus there can never be an excuse for people who commit
such sins.

Romans 2:14-16: “For when the
Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the
law; these having not the law are a law to themselves: Who shew the
work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to
them, and their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending
one another, In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ, according to my gospel.”

As the Haydock Bible and Commentary correctly explains
about Romans 2:14-16:

“these men are a law to
themselves, and have it written in their hearts, as to the existence of a
God, and their reason tells them, that many sins are unlawful...”

It is infallibly taught in Sacred Scripture that everyone
above the age of reason can know with certainty that there is a God. They know
this by the things that are made: the trees, the grass, the sun, the moon, the
stars, etc. Anyone who is an atheist or agnostic (who believes that God does
not exist or is unknowable) is without excuse. The natural law convicts him.
This is a revealed truth of Sacred Scripture.

Creation itself bears witness that there is a God, that is,
a living, omnipotent and intelligent Being who created it. The apostle Paul
wrote to the saints in Rome that since the creation of the world, God’s
invisible qualities – His eternal power and Godhead – have been clearly seen,
being understood from what has been made (Romans 1:20); and David said that the
heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork (Psalm
19:1). Therefore, since the existence of God is so clearly witnessed by His
works, those who deny His existence are without excuse. “The fool has said in
his heart, ‘there is no God’” (Psalm 53:1).

God defined infallibly, based on Romans 1, that the one true
God can be known with certitude by the things which have been made, and by the
natural light of human reason.

Romans 1:19-21: “Because that
which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto
them. For the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; His eternal power
also, and divinity: SO THAT THEY ARE INEXCUSABLE.”

All men have the natural law (moral laws), and laws against
idolatry (Wisdom chaps. 14,15,16) and false religions upon their hearts. A
non-Catholic can keep these laws that are in his heart even though he may
commit other sins and break other laws. As St. John teaches, "If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in
us." (1 John 1:8,10) The laws that a non-Catholic keeps defend him and
grant him the reward of actual grace toward his conversion. However, the laws
upon his heart that he breaks accuse him before God and render him fully
guilty. "For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature
those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to
themselves: Who shew the word of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience bearing witness to them, and their thoughts between themselves
accusing, or defending one another." (Romans 2:14-15) Even if a
non-Catholic could keep all of the laws that are upon his heart, this will
still not save him because he does not have supernatural faith, the root of
which is explicit faith in the Incarnation and the Most Holy Trinity. His
ignorance does not give him what he needs to be saved. So how can they be saved
in that case? The answer is that if there are truly any people of sincere and
of good will who have not yet attained the faith, provided they cooperate with
the natural law, then God would send a preacher (even miraculously, if
necessary) to bring the Catholic Faith and baptism to him.

God is all knowing and all powerful and keeps His promises

Because God is all knowing, all
powerful, and keeps all His promises, He will never let any ultimately
good-willed person die without getting baptized by water and entering the
Catholic Church. If you believe this is impossible for God, then you are a
heretic for believing that God is not all powerful and all knowing: "With
God all things are possible." (Mt. 19:26)

Jesus said that all men must be
baptized by water to be saved; and He meant it literally. Jesus also promised
that other good sheep (that is, good-willed unbelievers) would hear His voice
and enter the Catholic Church before they die: "And other sheep I have,
that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice,
and there shall be one fold and one shepherd." (Jn. 10:16) Because God
keeps His promises, He sees to it that all these other good sheep will hear His
voice, believe in Him, and receive the sacrament of baptism and enter the
Catholic Church sometime before they die.

St. Thomas Aquinas, De
Veritate, 14, A. 11, ad 1: Objection: "It
is possible that someone may be brought up in the forest, or among wolves; such
a man cannot explicitly know anything about the faith." St. Thomas replies: "It
is the characteristic of Divine Providence to provide every man with what is
necessary for salvation… provided on his part there is no hindrance. In the
case of a man who seeks good and shuns evil, by the leading of natural reason,
God would either reveal to him through internal inspiration what had to be
believed, or would send some preacher of the faith to him…"

St. Thomas Aquinas, Sent. II,
28, Q. 1, A. 4, ad 4: "If a man
born among barbarian nations, does what he can, God Himself will show him
what is necessary for salvation, either by inspiration or sending a teacher to
him."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Sent. III,
25, Q. 2, A. 2, solute. 2: "If a man
should have no one to instruct him, God will show him, unless he
culpably wishes to remain where he is."

All the people who die in cultures which have never been
penetrated by the Gospel go to Hell for sins against the natural law and the
other grave sins which they commit – which bad will and failure to cooperate
with God’s grace is the reason He does not reveal the Gospel to them. St.
Augustine explains this well in reference to persons who died ignorant of the
Faith and without baptism.

St.
Augustine (+428): "… God foreknew that if they had lived and the gospel
had been preached to them, they would have heard it without belief." (The
Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3: 1997)

Because God is all knowing, He
knew all of the good and bad sheep, the elect and the damned, even before the
earth was created: "For all things were known to the Lord God, before
they were created." (Eccus. 23:29) And because God is all powerful, He
creates the elect as well as the damned and gives them both ample opportunities
and occasions in a time or times and place or places in which they can
cooperate with His grace and get baptized by water and enter the Catholic
Church sometime before they die, even if by a miracle, provided on their own
part there is no hindrance: "The works of God are done in judgment from
the beginning, and from the making of them he distinguished their parts, and
their beginnings in their generations." (Eccus. 16:26) "[God] hath
made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth,
determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation."
(Acts 17:26) And because God is all powerful, He clears all obstacles that
would prevent His elect of good-will from being baptized by water and
entering the Catholic Church: "No word
shall be impossible with God." (Lk.
1:37)

Hutton Gibson says that Protestants, Jews, and Moslems can be saved

Hutton also said that those who never heard of the gospel,
such as practicing Protestants, Jews, and Moslems, can be in a state of grace
and be saved if they die as such.

Hutton Gibson, Letter to...,
6/26/01: “According to you, if anyone has never heard of Christ and His Gospel
he will not be condemned for that but he will be condemned anyway, whether or
not he is in a state of grace. You insist that all Protestants, Jews, Moslems,
etc, are corrupt, steeped in mortal sin, predestined for hell. This is utterly
absurd.”

This is pure heresy, apostasy and blasphemy! Our Lord and
His Church at all times condemns all those who commit acts of idolatry by
worshipping false gods and practicing false religions, as being corrupted and
steeped in sin, and calls them to conversion as their only hope for salvation.
Whereas, Hutton has placed them in a state of grace and ready for Heaven,
without hearing the Word of God, without faith in Jesus Christ, without the
cleaning waters of baptism, and without entering the Catholic Church, and he
has the nerve to say that people are absurd for saying they need these things
to be saved. The world is upside down when men like Hutton are looked upon as
Catholics. In the days of the Inquisition Hutton would be burnt at the stake as
the vilest of all heretics, as an apostate, for teaching such abominable things
that are odious to pious ears. Hutton has blasphemed the Holy Ghost. Hutton
wrongly says that these souls are predestined to hell if one “insist that all
Protestants, Jews, Moslems, etc,” are damned for dying as non-Catholics! God
predestines no one to hell. However, God does know the eternal destiny of all
men before they are created. Hutton proves that he does not understand the
Catholic doctrine of predestination.

As Catholics, of course, we don’t believe as the heretic
John Calvin, who held a predestination according to which no matter what one
does he is either predestined for Heaven or Hell and that God wills it that
way. That is a wicked heresy. Rather, as Catholics we believe in the true
understanding of predestination, which is expressed by Romans 8, Acts 13.

Romans 8:29-30: "For
whom He foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of
his Son: that he might be the first-born amongst many brethren. And
whom he predestinated, them he also called: and whom he called, them he
also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

Acts 13:48: "And the
Gentiles hearing it, were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and
as many as were preordained to life everlasting, believed."

This true understanding of predestination simply means that
God’s foreknowledge from all eternity makes sure that those who are of good
will and are sincere will be brought to the Faith and come to know what they
must – and that all those who are not brought to the Faith and don’t know what
they must simply were not among the elect. It is a point of faith, that this
foreknowledge of the Almighty no ways interferes with man’s liberty, but leaves
him still a perfectly free agent, and therefore responsible for his actions.

St. Augustine, Tractate 89,
on John 15:22-23: "What, then, does He [Jesus] mean by the words, If
I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin? [John 15:22] Was
it that the Jews were without sin before Christ came to them in the flesh? Who,
though he were the greatest fool, would say so?... But when He went on to
say, But now they have no excuse for their sin, some may be moved to
inquire whether those to whom Christ neither came nor spoke, have an excuse for
their sin. For if they have not, why is it said here that these had none, on
the very ground that He did come and speak to them? And if they have, have they
it to the extent of thereby being barred from punishment, or of receiving it in
a milder degree? To these inquiries, with the Lord's help and to the best of my
capacity, I reply, that such have an excuse, not for every one of their
sins, but for this sin of not believing on Christ, inasmuch as He came
not and spoke not to them."

Hutton implies God is Stupid and Powerless!

Hutton Gibson, The War is Now!,
No. 45, p. 1: “Those who insist on literal Catholic Baptism with water lack
understanding of God’s revealed plan. God wishes all men saved. So He makes
it impossible for most [to be saved by requiring baptism]?”

Just because God wants all men to be saved does not mean all
men will be saved. As a matter of fact only few will be saved, very few. Does
this mean God is unjust or “makes it impossible for most” to be saved? It is of
the faith that un-baptized infants who die go to hell but without suffering the
punishment of fire:

Pope Pius VI, Auctorem fidei,
Aug. 28, 1794: “26. The doctrine which rejects as a Pelagian fable, that
place of the lower regions (which the faithful generally designate by the name
of the limbo of the children) in which the souls of those departing with the
sole guilt of original sin are punished with the punishment of the condemned, exclusive
of the punishment of fire, just as if, by this very fact, that these
who remove the punishment of fire introduced that middle place and state free
of guilt and of punishment between the kingdom of God and eternal damnation,
such as that about which the Pelagians idly talk” – Condemned as false,
rash, injurious to Catholic schools. (Denz. 1526)

Here Pope Pius VI condemns the idea of some theologians that
infants who die in original sin suffer the fires of Hell. At the same time, he
confirms that these infants do go to a part of the lower regions (i.e., Hell)
called the limbo of the children. They do not go to Heaven, but to a place in
Hell where there is no fire. This is perfectly in accord with all of the other
solemn definitions of the Church, which teach that infants who die without
water baptism descend into Hell, but suffer a punishment different from those
who die in mortal sin. Their punishment is eternal separation from God.

Pope Pius XI, Mit brennender
Sorge (# 25), March 14, 1937: “‘Original sin’ is the hereditary but
impersonal fault of Adam’s descendants, who have sinned in him (Rom. v. 12). It
is the loss of grace, and therefore eternal life, together with a
propensity to evil, which everybody must, with the assistance of grace,
penance, resistance and moral effort, repress and conquer.”

As will be proven, there is no possible way for children to
be freed from original sin other than through the Sacrament of Baptism. This,
of course, proves that there is no way for infants to be saved other than
through the Sacrament of Baptism. So the following definitions merely affirm
what has already been established: no child can possibly enter the kingdom of
Heaven without receiving water baptism, but will rather descend into Hell.

Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, “Letentur coeli,” Sess. 6, July 6, 1439, ex cathedra: “We
define also that… the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal
sin, or in original sin alone, go straightaway to hell, but
to undergo punishments of different kinds.”

The Catholic Church teaches that aborted children and
infants who die without baptism descend immediately into Hell, but that they do
not suffer the fires of Hell. They go to a place in Hell called the limbo of
the children. The most specific definition of the Church proving that there is
no possible way for an infant to be saved without the Sacrament of Baptism is
the following one from Pope Eugene IV.

Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, ex cathedra: “Regarding
children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take
place, when no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through
the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the
domination of the Devil [original sin] and adopted among the sons of God,
it advises that holy baptism ought not be deferred for forty or eighty days, or
any time according to the observance of certain people…” (Denz. 712)

Pope Eugene IV here defined from the Chair of Peter
that there is no other remedy for infants to be snatched away
from the dominion of the devil (i.e., original sin) other than the Sacrament of
Baptism. This means that anyone who obstinately teaches that infants can be
saved without receiving the Sacrament of Baptism is a heretic, for he is
teaching that there is another remedy for original sin in
children other than the Sacrament of Baptism.

Pope Martin V, Council of
Constance, Session 15, July 6, 1415 - Condemning the articles of John
Wyclif - Proposition 6: “Those who claim that the children of the
faithful dying without sacramental baptism will not be saved, are stupid and
presumptuous in saying this.” - Condemned

The arch-heretic John Wyclif was proposing that those (such
as ourselves) are stupid for teaching that infants who die without water
(i.e., sacramental) baptism cannot possibly be saved.He was
anathematized for this assertion, among many others.And here is what the
Council of Constance had to say about John Wyclif’s anathematized propositions,
such as #6 above.

Pope Martin V, Council of
Constance, Session 15, July 6, 1415: “The books and pamphlets of John
Wyclif, of cursed memory, were carefully examined by the doctors and
masters of Oxford University… This holy synod, therefore, in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, repudiates and condemns, by this perpetual decree, the
aforesaid articles and each of them in particular; and it forbids each and every
Catholic henceforth, under pain of anathema, to preach, teach, or hold the said
articles or any one of them.”

So those who criticize Catholics for affirming the dogma
that no infant can be saved without the Sacrament of Baptism are actually
proposing the anathematized heresy of John Wyclif. Here are some other dogmatic
definitions on the topic:

Pope St. Zosimus, The Council
of Carthage, Canon on Sin and Grace, 417 A.D.- “It has been decided
likewise that if anyone says that for this reason the Lord said: ‘In my
Father’s house there are many mansions’ [John 14:2]: that it might be
understood that in the kingdom of heaven there will be some middle place or
some place anywhere where the blessed infants live who departed from this life
without baptism, without which they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven,
which is life eternal, let him be anathema.” (Denz. 102, authentic addition
to canon 2.)

Pope Paul III, The Council of
Trent, On Original Sin, Session V, ex cathedra: “If anyone says that
recently born babies should not be baptized even if they have been born to
baptized parents; or says that they are indeed baptized for the remission of
sins, but incur no trace of the original sin of Adam needing to be cleansed
by the laver of rebirth for them to obtain eternal life, with the
necessary consequence that in their case there is being understood a form of
baptism for the remission of sins which is not true, but false: let him be
anathema.” (Denz. 791)

This means that anyone who asserts that infants don’t need
the “laver of rebirth” (water baptism) to attain eternal life is teaching
heresy. St. Augustine was perhaps the most outspoken proponent of the apostolic
truth that infants who die without Baptism are excluded from the Kingdom of
Heaven (since they have original sin).

St. Augustine, A.D. 415: “Anyone
who would say that infants who pass from this life without participation in the
Sacrament [of Baptism] shall be made alive in Christ truly goes counter to the
preaching of the Apostle and condemns the whole Church, where there is
great haste in baptizing infants because it is believed without doubt that
there is no other way at all in which they can be made alive in Christ.”
(Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, Vol. 3: 2016.)

The Revelations of St. Bridget also corroborates this
infallible dogmatic truth revealed by God in Book 5, Interrogation 6:

First question. Again he
appeared on his ladder as before, saying: "O Judge, I ask you: Why does
one infant emerge alive from the mother's womb and obtain baptism, while
another, having received a soul, dies in the mother's belly?"

Answer to the first question.
The Judge answered: "You ask why one infant dies in the mother's belly
while another emerges alive. There is a reason. All the strength of the child's
body comes, of course, from the seed of its father and mother; however, if it
is conceived without due strength, because of some weakness of its father or
mother, it dies quickly. As a result of the negligence or carelessness of the
parents as well as of my divine justice, many times it happens that what was
joined together comes apart quickly.

Yet a soul is not brought to the
harshest punishment for this reason, however little time it had for giving life
to the body, but, rather, it comes to the mercy that is known to me. Just as
the sun shining into a house is not seen as it is in its beauty - only those
who look into the sky see its rays - so too the souls of such children, though
they do not see my face for lack of baptism, are nevertheless closer to my
mercy than to punishment, but not in the same way as my elect." - The
Revelations of St. Bridget, Book 5, Interrogation 6, Question 1

More proof:

“But consider my goodness and
mercy! For, as the teacher says, I give virtue to those who do not have any
virtue. By reason of my great love I give the kingdom of heaven to all of the
baptized who die before reaching the age of discretion. As it is written: It
has pleased my Father to give the kingdom of heaven to such as these. By reason
of my tender love, I even show mercy to the infants of pagans. If any of them
die before reaching the age of discretion, given that they cannot come to know
me face to face, they go instead to a place that it is not permitted for you to
know but where they will live without suffering.” - The Revelations of St.
Bridget, Book 2, Chapter 1

These fascinating sentences clearly affirm infallible
Catholic dogma by teaching that no one can see God’s face without water
baptism. Yet, they also give us explicit confirmation that these children are
in a state of light and mercy, though not in the same way as those in Heaven.

Yet according to Hutton, if an un-baptized infant who died
is in hell then God is unjust. “So He makes it impossible for most [to be saved
by requiring baptism]?”

Pope Innocent III, Fourth
Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: “But the
sacrament of baptism is consecrated in water at the invocation of the undivided
Trinity – namely, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – and brings salvation to both
children and adults when it is correctly carried out by anyone in the
form laid down by the Church.”

Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, “Letentur coeli,” Sess. 6, July 6, 1439, ex cathedra: “We
define also that… the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal
sin, or in original sin alone, go straightaway to hell,
but to undergo punishments of different kinds.” (Denz. 693)

Those who refuse to believe in the dogma Outside the Church
There is No Salvation until they understand how there is justice in it are
simply withholding their Faith in Christ’s revelation. Those with the true
Faith in Christ (and His Church) accept His teaching first and
understand the truth in it (i.e., why it is true) second. A Catholic
does not withhold his belief in Christ’s revelation until he can understand it.
That is the mentality of a faithless heretic who possesses insufferable pride.
St. Anselm sums up the true Catholic outlook on this point.

St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church,
Prosologion, Chap. 1: “For I do not seek to understand that I may
believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I
believe, that unless I believed, I should not understand.”

It is impossible for an un-baptized infant to be preached
to, they do not even have a chance to hear the word. So how is it that God
sends these souls to hell when they did not even have a chance to hear the word
and make a choice? Why has God damned these souls when it was impossible for
them to hear the word? The answer lies in the proper understanding of
predestination, of God’s all-knowing attribute of omniscience and His
all-powerful attribute of omnipotence.

Hutton cannot properly answer this because he does not have
supernatural faith and with his limited intelligence, which is what all humans
have, he brings God down to his level because he does not accept by faith these
attributes of God and His just judgments when he damns an un-baptized infant,
or ignorant pagan to hell. Hutton and his like infer that God is unjust or
stupid and powerless to save those of good will.

First: They infer that God
is unjust or stupid. They presume that God infused a good-willed soul into the
womb of a woman on a pagan island without the possibility of being baptized by
a missionary before his death. God seeing this would then have to say: how
thoughtless could I have been to abandon this poor good-willed soul on this
island in which no missionary will reach him in its lifetime. So, we see, God
is portrayed as stupid, denying His foreknowledge. God did not know that this
soul was good-willed before his conception, and allowed him to be born on this
remote island, with no hope of him being preached to nor baptized in his
lifetime.

Second: They infer that
God is powerless, denying His Omnipotence; He could not physically get a
missionary to this soul to baptize him within his one lifetime if it turned out
that he really was of good will. If faith can move mountains, God can see to it
that water Baptism reaches every good-willed man. God knows ahead of time the
disposition of souls; He places them where he pleases, and has the power to see
to it that they get baptized if they are of good will. It is those who deny the
necessity of the Sacrament of Baptism who are limiting God’s knowledge and
power, and question His justice and abuse His mercy. The potter has power over
the vessel to do as He pleases, both were created to glory, but since one of
the vessels is rejecting His grace, it is in the end headed to destruction; the
vessels of glory due to their good will and the vessels of destruction due to
their bad will (Rom. 9). What is man but dust and dirt, that he judges a man
worthy of heaven who lived and died explicitly in unbelief. If God allowed a
man to die in manifest unbelief, who is man to judge him worthy of heaven?

Testimony: I would like to
respond to Jose regarding babies who die without baptism, my wife and I also
lost a baby due to miscarriage but yes that is the teaching of the church
because all things are always before God, past, present and future God knows
you before you are born, he knows how you will turn out before you are born.
Obviously God saw that this baby would not be saved anyway if He allowed the
baby to be born, he or she would have suffered hell with fire but instead the
soul of the baby suffers hell without fire, one can see God’s mercy in that!!!
I understand how you feel Jose but you are looking at it from an emotional
level and not the reality of Jesus' teaching on baptism. If you also look at
what Jesus says about how many are saved {few} then you can have a better
understanding about how things really are, especially in these endtimes.

Therefore Hutton and his like accuse almighty God of being
stupid, unjust and powerless. This is precisely the sin Hutton commits in the
eyes of God when he dare questions God’s judgments by saying un-baptized men
who do not explicitly believe in the Incarnation and the Most Holy Trinity can
be worthy of heaven.

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